Article ; Online: Analysis of Orientia tsutsugamushi promoter activity.
Pathogens and disease
2021 Volume 79, Issue 7
Abstract: Orientia tsutsugamushi is an obligate intracellular bacterium that causes scrub typhus, a potentially fatal rickettsiosis, and for which no genetic tools exist. Critical to addressing this technical gap is to identify promoters for driving expression of ... ...
Abstract | Orientia tsutsugamushi is an obligate intracellular bacterium that causes scrub typhus, a potentially fatal rickettsiosis, and for which no genetic tools exist. Critical to addressing this technical gap is to identify promoters for driving expression of antibiotic resistance and fluorescence reporter genes in O. tsutsugamushi. Such promoters would need to be highly conserved among strains, expressed throughout infection, and exhibit strong activity. We examined the untranslated regions upstream of O. tsutsugamushi genes encoding outer membrane protein A (ompA), 22-kDa type-specific antigen (tsa22) and tsa56. The bacterium transcribed all three during infection of monocytic, endothelial and epithelial cells. Examination of the upstream noncoding regions revealed putative ribosome binding sites, one set of predicted -10 and -35 sequences for ompA and two sets of -10 and -35 sequences for tsa22 and tsa56. Comparison of these regions among geographically diverse O. tsutsugamushi patient isolates revealed nucleotide identities ranging from 84.8 to 100.0%. Upon examination of the candidates for the ability to drive green fluorescence protein expression in Escherichia coli, varying activities were observed with one of the tsa22 promoters being the strongest. Identification and validation of O. tsutsugamushi promoters is an initial key step toward genetically manipulating this important pathogen. |
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MeSH term(s) | Animals ; Antigens, Bacterial/genetics ; Antigens, Bacterial/metabolism ; Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins/genetics ; Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins/metabolism ; Bacterial Proteins/genetics ; Bacterial Proteins/metabolism ; Cell Line ; Green Fluorescent Proteins/genetics ; Green Fluorescent Proteins/metabolism ; Haplorhini ; HeLa Cells ; Humans ; Orientia tsutsugamushi/genetics ; Promoter Regions, Genetic ; Rickettsia Infections/microbiology ; Scrub Typhus/microbiology ; THP-1 Cells |
Chemical Substances | Antigens, Bacterial ; Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins ; Bacterial Proteins ; Green Fluorescent Proteins (147336-22-9) ; OMPA outer membrane proteins (149024-69-1) |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2021-09-13 |
Publishing country | United States |
Document type | Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
ISSN | 2049-632X |
ISSN (online) | 2049-632X |
DOI | 10.1093/femspd/ftab044 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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